I mentioned in a previous post that we're moving shortly and, sadly, will be leaving Bear Mountain proper for a house we've just purchased a few miles away. We'll still in the mountains, and just a mile or so from the San Andreas fault line, on the edge of where the land drops down to Soquel Creek (which meets the Pacific near Capitola). It's a beautiful stretch of mostly flat, usable land with great sun, all fenced in with a number of buildings on the property making it something of a family compound. If you're reading this blog, I'm sure you're familiar with the cost of real estate in California and I'll spare you the diatribe on how expensive things are. We feel lucky getting into a place with such great potential. The house requires some work to realize that potential, though. We'll be putting in central heating, a roof, a new kitchen, new bathrooms, running new water pipes (the current tank is connected through a garden hose to the main hous